Friday was forecast to be the hottest day of the Bathurst weekend.
Can I just say that if you are trying to protect your skin from the sun, you can do worse than a Bond's hoodie. I bought one of these and was able to wear it even when the temperature hit nearly 30 degrees but it wasn't too hot, I only pulled the sleeves up a couple of times.

Brett and I took off in the morning heading for the action. We stopped first at the nearest official viewing area to our campsite - it was above the Chase. The V8 Supercars were having a practice session so we watched it for a while. I took some blurry photos. Although you could see the cars for a good while here, they were a long way away and it just wasn't as exciting.

We bought some coffee there but it was really gross, not going back there for coffee.

We left that viewing area and crossed over the Armor All Bridge and into the pit area. Brett visited his favourite Touring Car Masters car, a six cylinder Charger. It was the only six at the meeting.

We also took another look at the Dunlop cars, including one which had been in a meeting-ending crash. It was very badly damaged.

Next up was the Legends Museum which was a temporary museum set up in the pits. The museum included some of the actual cars we used to watch race, as well as some replicas. The purpose of the museum was to highlight the top ten moments in Bathurst history.

It was again really special to see some of these cars. What was interesting was that some of the cars claimed to be the same as the ones in the National Motor Racing Museum a few hundred metres away, but these cars couldn't have been in two places at once. Like I said, some were real and some were replicas.

We took another stroll along the back of the garages, and Brett collected some posters from the teams. The Lucky 7 car had gone off the track at Murray's Corner and we were there when it was transported back to the garage. The V8s were practicing again so we got to see the teams doing some repairs and adjustments. Also some intense watching of screens.

The fire brigade turned up to investigate a gas leak, some more intense discussion but nothing seemed to come of it.

The last garage we visited was the Dunlop tyre garage. These guys were working really hard. I am glad people don't go around treating my work as a spectator sport. I don't think I would like that. Actually the people watching probably wouldn't get much out of it either.

Back to the van for some lunch, then we watched from our little spot in the motorhome camp, the Dunlop cars have their first race.

After that we went back to the van to watch the coverage on TV. I didn't much like that - I didn't come all this way to watch it on TV!

That night Brett and I walked down to the merchandise area, and realised that there was a lot more to it than we had seen yesterday. At night nearly everything was closed, but there was one tent open selling model cars. So I bought Brett a new car. They had a lot of Hot Wheels cars which were quite expensive but I already had all the one they had, except for the hand painted ones - and I am not paying $40 for a hand painted Hot Wheels car, I am just not that kind of collector.

It was really good seeing the garages at night. They were mostly all open and the teams were working hard preparing the cars.

We climbed the fence to have a track walk along pit straight, along with a number of other people. It was a great way to end the day.

When we got back to our site, some campers who had arrived that afternoon were having a big noisy party. They were burning their rubbish in the fire and the place stunk. We motorhomers didn't like having our space invaded by tent campers - they should have gone somewhere else!